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The U.S. Coast Guardˇ's Deepwater Force Modernization Plan: Can It Be Accelerated? Will It Meet Changing Security Needs
Overview The United States Coast Guard's (USCG's) slow, but steady effort to replace and modernize many of its cutters, patrol boats, and air vehicles/conceived and put in motion before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and officially known as the Integrated Deepwater System program will not provide the USCG with adequate assets and capabilities to fulfill demands2 for traditional missions and emerging responsibilities. It cannot gain these capabilities merely by buying the assets in the current program over 10 or 15 years instead of over 20 years according to this report.
| Publisher | RAND | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | April 2004 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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